iliana emilia García - September 2022

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1970, García received her AAS from Altos de Chavon/The School of Design in the Dominican Republic in 1989, and her BFA in Communication Design from Parsons The New School of Design in 1991. She is currently finishing her MA in Biography & Memoir at the Graduate Center in NY. Garcia works in big format drawings on canvas and paper, and escalating installations depicting her most iconic symbols: the chair and the written word. Her work has been written about in numerous art publications and exhibited at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Exit Art, NY; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; El Museo del Barrio, NY; and other venues. Her work is part of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art collection, El Museo del Barrio’s collection, and several private collections. She is a founding member of the Dominican York Proyecto Grafica (DYPG), a printmaking collective.

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Chanel Thervil - August 2022

Chanel Thervil is a Haitian American artist and educator that uses varying combinations of abstraction and portraiture to convene communal dialogue around culture, social issues, and existential questions. At the core of her practice lies a desire to empower and inspire tenderness and healing among communities of color through the arts. She's been making a splash in Boston via her educational collaborations, public art, and residencies with institutions like The Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Children's Museum, and PBS Kids.

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Bryana Bibbs - August 2022

"3.1.21/3.9.21”, 2021, 15.5” x 9”, handwoven hand-carded hand-spun wool and angelina fiber

Bryana Bibbs (b. 1991) is a Chicago-based textile artist and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work comes from her struggles with depression, anxiety, relationships, self-validation, and how to deal with everyday occurrences. She is the founder of The We Were Never Alone Project - A Weaving Workshop for Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence and serves on the Surface Design Association’s Education Committee. Bryana’s work has been on view at The Evanston Art Center (Evanston, Illinois), ARC Gallery (Chicago, Illinois), The Bridgeport Art Center (Chicago, Illinois), The Wayback (Chicago, Illinois), and Room482 (Brooklyn, New York), The Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, Illinois), and Praxis Fiber Workshop (Cleveland, Ohio).

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Kate Fowle - August 2022

Kate Fowle is a curator and the former Director of MoMA PS1. From 2013–2019 she was the inaugural chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, where she was the executive director from 2009–13. Prior to this she was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2007–08). In 2002 she co-founded the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice for California College of the Arts in San Francisco, for which she was the Chair until 2007. Before moving to the United States, Fowle was co-director of Smith + Fowle in London from 1996–2002. From 1994–96 she was curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Legacy Russell - August 2022

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, and a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book is Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020). Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books.

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Tyrone Mitchell - July 2022

Ways of Grain by Tyrone Mitchell

I was born in 1944 in Savannah, Ga. Family moved to Atlantic City, NJ in the early 1950’s. I attended High School there. My interest in Art seems to be connected to an Artist/ Barber in Savannah, Ulysses Davis who made wooden pieces of both timely events as well as demons which he called his creations. That interest resurfaced during later High School. Upon graduating I came to New York and enrolled at the Art Students League and later in the New York Studio School. I have maintained a studio in NY since 1965. In 1969 I traveled in West Africa with a keen desire to witness first hand the culture and its creators. I am a Mcdowell Colony Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow A recipient of a Readers Digest Fellowship held at The Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France. I am also a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. I am a Professor of Art at Queens College. I currently live and work in Ancram NY.

Cole Caswell - July 2022

Cole Caswell researches the remnants and patterns in our landscape that reflect contemporary strategies of survival. Through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity, and his surroundings, Caswell investigates geography and its impact on our perceived ability to survive. He uses traditional, historic and digital photographic media to investigate our present condition. Working and living in a nomadic format Cole travels throughout the county exploring our ability to subsist within the contemporary environment. His studio is located on Peaks Island off the coast of Maine.

Matt Bodett - July 2022

Born and raised in Idaho, Bodett received his MFA from Boise State University in 2011. Seeking to dedicate himself more fully to a studio practice he moved to Chicago in 2013. Since that time he has begun performing and exhibiting nationally and internationally. Bodett has created performance art work which has been exhibited at the Freud Museum in London, the No Limits Festival in Berlin, the Poetry Foundation, Steppenwolf Theater, and various other cultural institutions. Bodett has been a 3Arts and Bodies of Work Fellow, a 3Arts resident at MacDowell, an incubator artist at High Concept Laboratories, and has received numerous grants and awards. He currently teaches at Loyola University Chicago, serves on the advisory board for the Institute for Therapy Through the Arts, and is on the Artist’s council for 3Arts Chicago.

David Bunn Martine - June 2022

David Bunn Martine, born David Bunn Siklos in 1960 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, is of Shinnecock/Montauk, Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache from his mother Marjorie, a classically trained opera and concert singer. His father, Thomas Siklos is a Hungarian music director, organist and voice teacher. He comes from an artistic family for several generations.

David is currently Director/Curator of the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum, Shinnecock Reservation, Southampton, NY; Chairperson of American Indian Artists Inc.(AMERINDA) based in New York City; and also a painter and sculptor for 30 years.

In 2014, he has add another gallery of commissioned portraits. Custom commissioned portraits are now be ordered according to the custom specifications of a client. A single figure, multiple figures, animals, custom backgrounds and three standard sizes in oil on canvas. Check the specifics in the Terms and Conditions section.

In 2013 he completed on an oral history book of his family through four verbatum oral histories from both the Native American and Hungarian heritage. Time and Memories, Histories and Stories of A Shinnecock-Apache-Hungarian Family, Compiled and Edited by David Bunn Martine, released in 2013, and available for sale at www.lulu.com, contains oral histories from David's Grandmother, Alice Osceola Bunn Martinez; uncle, David Walkus Martinez; mother, Marjorie Carola Martinez; and father, Thomas Siklos.

Séan Alonzo Harris - June 2022

Sean Alonzo Harris is a professional editorial, commercial and fine art photographer concentrating on narrative and environmental portraiture. Over the past 25 years, Sean’s work is featured in a range of national publications, advertising campaigns, and exhibitions. In these varied contexts, Sean’s work focuses on human experience and identity and examines both how individuals visualize themselves and how they are portrayed. Sean’s images bear witness to often invisible or overlooked members of our communities, and create portraits that provide a counter-image and narrative of self-worth and personal agency. His work has been published in Atlantic Magazine, the Paris Review, Boston Magazine, Maine Home and Design, Photo District News Rising Star feature, Maine Magazine, Harvard University Magazine.

Harris has also received critical acclaim for his fine artwork. His most recent solo exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art, I Am Not A Stranger, was developed in collaboration with Waterville Creates and supported by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission. I Am Not A Stranger is a series of 58 portraits of community members that were displayed in the Colby Museum as well as in sixteen different locations across the city of Waterville.

His work is part of the celebrated traveling exhibition, Going Forward, Looking Back, practicing historical processes in the 21st century. He has developed several significant shows, VanDerZee On My Mind featuring images of African Americans in Maine, sponsored by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council, The Families Of Maine Documentary Photography Project; A Lebanese Family In Waterville, Recollection; Green Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the multi-disciplinary exhibition; If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride at the Portland Museum of Art, featuring video, dance, text, and photography and The Griffin Museum of Photography’s Tenth Annual Exhibition.

Harris graduated from the Art Institute of Boston and studied photography in Viterbo, Italy and at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine

Antonio McAfee - June 2022

Title: Crackling 1

Medium: Pigment print

Dimensions: 24” x 36”

Date: 2021

Edition: 2 of 5 + A.P.

Antonio McAfee is a photographer based in Richmond, IN. He received his BFA in Fine Art Photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Shortly after, he earned his MFA in Photography from the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Art in Arts and Culture Management from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). McAfee’s work addresses the complexity of representation by appropriating and manipulating photographic portraits of African Americans in the 19th century, funk and R&B musicians, and transitioned family members.

Title: Plaid 3

Medium: Pigment print

Dimensions: 24” x 36”

Date: 2021

Edition: 1 of 5 + A.P.

Christophe Roberts - June 2022

Air Dragon, commissioned by Industry PDX in Portland, was upcycled from hundreds of Jordan boxes. The dragon is 10 feet wide and 4 feet high and breathes a neon flame.

Christophe Roberts (b. 1980, Chicago, Illinois) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting design and installation work. His work invites viewers to contemplate the ecological and cultural impact of capitalism and consumerism, while exploring complex masculinities, rebel origin myths, and the commodification of identity through meditations on mass culture iconography. He is the founder of Manza Studios.

This triptych was inspired by Christophe’s recent commission for the groundbreaking experiential exhibition ‘WAKE ME WHEN I’M FREE’ exploring the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, which opened in LA in February 2022.

Gregory Jamie - May 2022

Greg Jamie is a visual artist and songwriter living and working in Portland Maine. He received a BFA in Film from SUNY Purchase and currently programs films at SPACE Gallery and The Apohadion Theater. As a visual artist he has recently shown work at the Portland Museum of Art, CMCA Biennial, Cove St. Arts, Able Baker Contemporary Gallery, and Border Patrol. As a musician he has released several albums including Crazy Time, released in 2018 through Orindal Records. His visual art is in a folk-art, narrative style with an emphasis on invented dark fairy tales, naturalism and mysticism.

Naoko Wowsugi - May 2022

Naoko Wowsugi is a first-generation immigrant and community-engaged artist who lives and works in Washington, D.C. Wowsugi's interdisciplinary projects, ranging from conceptual photography to socially-engaged art, explore the nature of belonging and inclusive community building while it highlights and fortifies everyday communal and interpersonal identities.

Cosmo Whyte - May 2022

Cosmo Whyte (b.) 1982, Jamaica, has exhibited his works in the , England, Jamaica, United States, Cuba, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, France, and South Africa. Whyte has been the recipient of the Harpo Award (2021), the Art Matters Award (2019) and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019), the Working Artist Award (2018), The Drawing Center's Open Sessions Fellowship (2018), Artadia Award (2016), the International Sculpture Center’s “Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award” (2015) and the Edge Award (2010). His work is in the public collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica, High Museum, 21c Collection, Hallmark Art Collection, and Pérez Art Museum Miami. Whyte attended Bennington College in Vermont for his BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art for his Post- Baccalaureate Certificate and the University of Michigan for his MFA. Cosmo Whyte is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University, College of Art.

Ngoc-Tran Vu - April 2022

Ngoc-Tran Vu (she/her) is a Vietnamese-American interdisciplinary artist and organizer whose socially engaged work draws from her experience as a community organizer, educator, and lightworker. Tran moves between mediums and materials to work in painting, photography, sculpture and social practice so that her art can best resonate and engage with its audience intentionally. Born in Vietnam, Tran came to the United States with her family as political refugees and grew up in Boston's Dorchester and South Boston working-class neighborhoods. She received her MA in Arts and Politics at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her BA in Ethnic Studies and Visual Arts at Brown University. Tran works across borders and is based in Boston’s Dorchester community. www.tranvuarts.com

39 - This site-specific installation is an homage to the 39 bodies and lives of Vietnamese migrants found in a refrigerated trunk in the U.K, 2019. These tragic journeys are painfully and dangerously happening more often than we realize and the need to unearth its systems and intentions are dire.

Tessa Green O'Brien - April 2022

Tessa G. O’Brien received her MFA from Maine College of Art, and her BS from Skidmore College. She has been awarded residencies at the Tides Institute in Eastport, ME, the Joseph A. Fiore Residency at Rolling Acres Farm in Jefforson, ME, Monson Arts, Haystack School, Vermont Studio Center, Hewnoaks, and the Stephen Pace House in Stonington, ME. She has received grants from the Ellis Beauregard Travel Grant, St Boltophs Club Foundation Emerging artist award, Maine Arts Commission Project Grant, and the Joseph A Fiore Painting Prize. Her work has been included in group shows throughout the US. In addition to her studio work, O’Brien has completed several large scale public murals, and collaborated on public art projects around New England. She is currently a co-director at Able Baker Contemporary gallery in Portland, ME, and resides in South Portland, ME.

Bree Gant - April 2022

bree gant is an artist and thinker from the westside of Detroit. She cultivates a critical, embodied practice that engages art as a form for care and knowledge production. Using photography, film, movement, and installation, bree remarks on the social forces that shape and distort relationship to self and other. Their work is rooted in research and ritual and a legacy of Black queer performance. bree studied film at Howard University while gentrification paved over Washington, DC, and moved back to Detroit, when the city filed for bankruptcy, to see the cranes had followed her home. She has held residencies and fellowships with Art Matters, Kresge Arts in Detroit, Red Bull Arts, People in Education and Detroit Narrative Agency, and exhibits her artwork nationally. Some of their most transformative experiences were collaborative, improvisational performances with The Gathering, Visions of the Evolution, and The Fringe Society. bree is currently researching bus transit, binge watching early 2000s sci fi, and likely at a city park dancing in the snow.

Don Voisine - March 2022

Don Voisine, in Fort Kent, Me, attended the Portland School of Art and Concept, School for Visual Studies in Portland, ME. He received an honorary BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2000. Exhibiting regularly in the U. S. and Europe, Voisine was the subject of a 15 year survey of his paintings at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME) in the fall of 2016. Since 1997 Voisine has been a member of American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization founded in 1936, and served as the President of the AAA from 2004 to 2012. In 2010 he was elected to the National Academy. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, Village Voice, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Collections include: Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Special Collection of the Library, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME. Voisine’s work is represented by McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (US), Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (US), dr. julius I ap, Berlin (DE), Floss und Schultz, Köln, (DE). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

The image of the painting below is "Passage" 2021, 38 x 48 in., oil & acrylic on wood panel.

Leenda Bonilla - March 2022

Leenda Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist, arts/cultural producer, and community advocate. Her practice is influenced by her urban/suburban background (born in NYC, raised in The Bronx and Puerto Rico). Leenda develops diaristic projects which focus on the impact of pop culture and social tropes in her experience and communities that conceptualize the intersections of gender, race, and identity. As an “ambiguous beige” artist, Leenda is pulled towards addressing the nuances of colorisms and effects of colonial, patriarchal systems in society and cultural capitalism. Her work in mixed media interprets these ”- isms'' via photography, design, installation, performance, sculpture and collaborations to decolonize the model of the Latinx creative lens which has been primarily male and Eurocentric. Leenda’s ouvres and installation/performance work has been exhibited at Art in Odd Places, (NYC), AS220 (RI), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Taller Boricua (NYC), MOLAA (LA), among others. Leenda holds a Masters from the Pratt Institute in Arts/Cultural Management (‘09, Outstanding Merit/Honors with Distinction), and a BA from Manhattan College, Political Science/International Studies and is a proud member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Leadership Institute Program. leendabonilla.com, @leenda.art - Insta.